HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he is not planning to ask state lawmakers to approve additional gun laws in the legislature's upcoming 2014 session.

He said Tuesday that the administration only anticipates proposing corrections to the sweeping gun laws that were enacted earlier this year in response to the deadly school shooting in Newtown.

The new laws significantly expanded the state's assault weapons ban, banned magazines that hold more than 10 rounds and imposed new restrictions on gun owners.

There were a number of other measures that Malloy and lawmakers proposed last session that did not make it into law. For his part, the Democratic governor has no plans to try to revive any of that legislation or propose additional laws next year.

"I don't think this session is going to be about guns or gun safety," Malloy said Tuesday.

The legislature will be meeting from Feb. 5 to May 7. The governor's office is preparing its legislative agenda.

Of gun control, Malloy said the administration will only be proposing legislation to reconcile conflicting language and make other technical corrections to the laws that were enacted this year. He said they would be "minor adjustments."

The legislature and Malloy also passed initiatives concerning school security and mental health as part of the response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Dec. 14.

A lone gunman named Adam Lanza shot down 20 first-graders and six educators after he shot his mother to death. The mentally troubled 20-year-old committed suicide with a pistol shot to the head after police responded to the school.

Malloy said the administration will be offering more mental health legislation next year in addition to the bills that legislators and committees are expected to propose.

"I think that we have done a lot in mental health each and every year that I have been here," he said.

Malloy commented on the administration's plans the day after a long-awaited summary of the state police investigation into the Sandy Hook tragedy was released,

In the coming months, state police will be releasing more records gathered in their investigation into the deadly school shooting in addition to the 44-page summary and accompanying appendix that Danbury State's Attorney Steven J. Sedensky III issued Monday.

Malloy called Sedensky's report as definitive an accounting as can be expected given that investigators could not interview Lanza or his murdered mother, Nancy Lanza.

"Certain avenues for information are closed to us, and unless someone invents a way to speak to either one of them — and I don't think that is going to happen — we're never going to know what we might otherwise have known if they had both survived," he said.

The report provided some more insight into Adam Lanza's mental health and his relationship with his mother.

It was already known that investigators found a number of firearms and a sizeable amount of ammunition in the Newtown home that mother and son shared.

Lanza went to Sandy Hook armed with two semi-automatic handguns, a loaded 12-gauge Siaga shotgun, a .223-caliber Bushmaster XM15 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

After reading the report, Malloy said he is bewildered that Nancy Lanza had purchased firearms for her mentally disturbed son and indulged his fascination with firearms and shooting. He called this foolish.

"I am not sure that this report was intended to cover all of Mrs. Lanza's behaviors and difficulties that she was wrestling with. It is apparent that she did not wrestle with them successfully. It is apparent because of what happened," Malloy said.

Privacy laws limited the information that Sedensky could disclose about Adam Lanza's mental health because it remains confidential even after his death.

Malloy declined to answer when asked whether there should be some exception to confidentiality in cases such as the mass shooting at Sandy Hook. He referred any such questions to Sedensky.

" Of course he won't bring up any more gun control laws; they would mean certain death in the voting booth should he run for a second term. It would appear that he is planning to do just that in the hope voters will forget about his huge tax increases, union coddling, business unfriendly legislation and regulations, and most of all his Draconian gun laws that have not curbed gun related violence, inner city shootings and would not have, nor ever will, prevent another Sandy Hook.

We can only hope CT voters see the error of their ways in putting Democrats in charge of the state and restore a balance to one party rule, I.e. vote all the bums out! "

" She needed help in reaching a son who was unreachable. How many other parents are hoping against hope that their teens or young adults whomay be capable of a similar tragedy can't reach them and don't have community resources to help them ... "

" WHAT A JOKE. All laws on guns are Unconstitutional Laws. I will not follow any of them. And ya blame mom why not she is a POS lets all hate her.

But its ok that for the last 60 years every State, City, and Fed Government has raped every American and then some.

We are over 200Tril in Debt from both party's, Vietnam War was a complete lie "Golf of Tonkin" , Late 50s Merck Pharmaceuticals had a SV-40 cancer virus in over 200mill doses of Polio Vaccine and admit that they also bring AIDS into the U.S., Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction also the info that Colin Powell used for the war was all a lie, All pharmaceutical company's are exempt from all law suits and admit over 100,000 died every year from there drugs and vaccines, Obama has lied about every god damn thing that he said, The Federal Reserve prints money out of thin air and loan it to us with interest when our Congress should print it interest free with no debt, I can see the calorie count of my food but cant find out if its GMO thanks MALLOY, All major company's don't pay over 10% of taxes and get tax breaks as we get over taxed, Banks print the money and play with it and then we bail them out with our taxes and then foreclose on our homes, TV MOVIES NEWS MUSIC VIDEO GAMES ARE ALL VIOLENT AND NOTING IS DONE.

" So when I register my ar 15 do I get a license plate to screw on it or do they assign a police officer to sit outside my house so he can follow me when I leave with a rifle case? I'm just trying to figure out how this will prevent a mass shooting. "

" OH PLEASE !! Give me a break !!! Malloy is BACK-PEDALLING ... FIX !!What needs fixing is Malloy. What this miserable state needs is to repeal all those new gun laws before DEC. 31st so 50,000 gun owners don't automatically become FELONS !!!Mr. Dipstick did so much damage, he doesn't have to be re-elected... he will go out in a proud feeling that makes Connecticut gun grabbers FEEL SAFER AND HAPPIER !! (until the next Sandy Hook) "

" In my opinion, fixes equate to more restrictions on law-abiding citizen gun owners who, up until Adam Lanza committed mass murders, Dannel passed this stupid law, and Obama, Bloomberg and the liberals jumped on the bandwagon, went about their lives in peaceful co-existence with law enforcement, state government and non-gun owners.

The only answer is to rebel against, challenge, reject and repeal this clearly unconstitutional law along with those who pushed through this unilateral, knee-jerk, gun grabbing statute, which solves and prevents nothing. "

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